Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine

by Douglas Summers.Stay and Douglas Summers Stay

Machinamenta is an exploration of the ancient roots of machines which are designed to be creative. It begins with the divination systems of prehistoric Africa, which followed mathematical principles to generate unique utterances in response to the questions of petitioners. Tracing the influence of philosophers and artists, inventors and scientists, musicians and mystics, it goes on to explore machines that, before the dawn of the twentieth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145631775X
• ISBN13: 9781456317751
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"